The resistance in popularity created by a film which is good in itself being attributed to a popular franchise, this dragging the overall quality of the film down.

Franchise whoring is a type of corporate greed. It is defined as the act of slapping a well known name on a somewhat lackluster product. This is very prominent in the video game market, where companies such as Square-Enix will slap "Final Fantasy 7" or "Kingdom Hearts" on a product completely unrelated with the exception that they include one or two characters from the original, successful product.

Other specific cases of franchise whoring include:

Hyrule Warriors
Halo Wars
Every game with "Final Fantasy 7" that isn't Final Fantasy 7.
Every game based on a movie
Every movie based on a game
Every Kingdom Hearts game that isnt Kingdom Hearts 1 or 2.

A scumbag team full of scumbag fans and players who only really care when in contention. A franchise who used to have glory but clearly has been out of the glory days for so long that half of their “fans” who cheer for their team three nights a year have no memory of the glory days because they’ve sucked for so long.

v. To make an attractive girl your pseudo girlfriend without officially giving her the title of girlfriend, or making her wifey, due to character flaws or imperfections in appearance.

n. The opposite of a wifey chick. Just a girl you would spend time with and fuck, but if someone else wants em all they gotta do is offer her more playin' time and give up a couple of their 1st round chicks n it's what ever.

Main bitch, top-shelf bitch, long term bitch, wifey material

1. A small company that is becoming a huge franchise.

2. Any sex position where the female is bent over, is having so much pleasure that she has muscle spasms that make her body straighten out from the knees up.

A company you can buy into that will setup a porn web site and/or movie studio etc. to make and show porn. It is a franchise just like burger king etc. except you and/or show porn etc.